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Stew from Olivar. Savory tarts from Poppy. Treats from B&O Espresso. Cherry pie from High 5 Pies and Fuel Coffee. No, not my lunch menu. The Capitol Hill Community Council is holding its (rescheduled!) public holiday party Thursday, 7p at the Cal Anderson park shelter house (just north of Bobby Morris playfield). It's free. It's community. It's potluck if you wanna bring a side to add. Haven't had a CHS meet-up in awhile. Consider coming out and saying hi. I'll have crow pins, too, if you don't have yours yet.
as i was reading through the comments on the CHS playlist and "music to walk to on capitol hill" threads, i realized that people have good taste in music here!
i propose we have a capitol hill mix CD trade (or mix tape trade, if you're that old school). here is how it will work: comment here if you would like to receive a mix CD made by one of your fellow hill neighbors, in return for a CD you make for them. make sure you comment before midnight on friday, january 9th. i will then go through the comments and assign people to each other randomly. does anyone else want to help coordinate this? i am thinking that sometime in the near future we could arrange to meet up somewhere at one of the copious happy hours the hill has to offer. we can then exchange our mixes and get to know some people we might not usually talk to. who's in? 
I was thinking about my Capitol Hill soundtrack and thought it would be fun to put together a collective playlist -- one that only includes songs with specific references to Capitol Hill, or albums or artists with close ties to the hill. 1) The most obvious one is Sir Mix-A-Lot's "Posse on Broadway," which was also covered on the new Diplo/Santogold album. 2) Any song from Modest Mouse's "Lonesome Crowded West." The inside cover art includes a photo of an apartment building near Republican and Belmont. What else?
No, this is not a model, its real. It's called tilt-shift and it's pretty much the coolest thing to hit photography since the Polaroid (R.I.P.). This particular beauty was created by Erynn Rose (sonek321). Check out more of his amazing tilt-shift photos in his new book, Miniature Seattle. Unfortunately this is the only tilt-shift photo I could find of our lovely little neighborhood. If anyone else has any, or better yet, if any of you talented photographers out their create some of these, please, please post them to the CHS flickr pool!
I spotted this graffiti on the side of Tyvek-clad 1111 E. Pike earlier this summer (July 4, 2008). It was up for less than 24 hours before it was painted over. I'm guessing that this was done by a downtown resident who set up a telescope pointed at the West-facing side of 1111 E Pike, but I'd love to hear the real story, if anybody knows it.
We're all neighbors here on Capitol Hill. Let's get to know each other. Presenting the CHS Capitol Hill Seattle Census 2009 -- 29 questions about you and your life on the Hill. The goal of this survey is to learn a bit more about the CHS community and Capitol Hill. Some of the questions will be asked again next year so we can analyze continuity. Some of the questions are one-of-a-kind for 2009. Anybody can participate. The results will be shared and the anonymous data will be made available to everybody. There are 29 questions. You do not need to answer every question and may come back to the survey at any time to change your answers or add new ones until the census closes on Sunday, Jan. 11 at 11:45PM. I'll share results starting the following week and make the anonymous data available at that time. If you have any suggestions for next year's survey, leave a comment. Thanks to my Twitter beta testers for feedback. I did what I could to keep what people liked and drop what people didn'...
At Melrose and Denny, there were hundreds of people milling about, drinking, spraying silly string and screaming "Happy New Year" while watching the fireworks. Not a bad way to pass into 2009. The rain was cold, but the booze kept me warm inside!
  
After you've weighed in on Capitol Hill 2008, leave a note about your plans for 2009. 
Asked earlier this week about worth of organizing a Capitol Hill community discussion to talk about -- and document -- the impact of December's snow and ice problems. Here's the Seattle City Council plan (pdf) for how they plan to postmortem the situation: Monday, January 5 at 9:30 a.m. - Council Briefings: An overview from Office of Emergency Management and Seattle Department of Transportation on the Storm Response, including information from the Seattle Fire Department and Seattle Police Department.
In northern towns where 6 inches of snow falling overnight is a regular occurrence, the spring thaw of icy rivers and crusted drifts is called "the break-up." It is mostly celebrated by people who live in these places -- the end of freezing cold, the start of warmer days. There is also an unease about it. Near rivers, giant ice drifts cause blockages and flooding. The retreat of the icy snow drifts reveals lost items, piles of trash and, worse, evidence of crimes and various misdeeds against nature and humanity. Seattle, it seems, is going through a similar thaw. Where the snow was good fun and an unusual opportunity to play, it also overwhelmed many services -- and our streets and sidewalks. Today, we are left looking at the lost items, the trash and, worse, evidence of crimes and various misdeeds against nature and humanity. There are many categories to discuss:
Finally, a press release from the City. This from KING TV:
Seattle's snowy holiday has turned into icy living. Not so fun when you're trying to get on with things. Here's a selection of appropriately somber and chilly Hill images from the ice-coated CHS flickr pool.
I heard on NPR that our Major gave himself a B grade in response to the snow storm. I wonder if this grade from one of the schools that do not meet the National standards. I am one of those unfortunate health care worker that has to be either on the road or use the buses to get to work since people need me no matter what the weather happens to be. Tried to get on the bus but they were not running; thank God I own one of those hated SUV's since the city decided to make the roads semi adequate for us to get around. Lots of my coworkers were not as lucky; they had to spend the night at work. It is more than an inconvenience when essential workers are not able to get to work and replace the ones locked in due to the conditions. You can not run a city in this manner; I am just asking for the major to use his critical thinking skills. He is getting his salary from us; the city needs to keep moving. Peace.
Thought I'd create an open thread to let everybody check-in from your various holiday travels (and non-travels). Leave a note, say where you are, add a picture if you're savvy (you can use standard HTML in comment field). Happy holidays, all. Stay warm. (From a City press release) Residential garbage, recycling, food and yard waste collection has been delayed in Seattle today, Wednesday, Dec. 24, due to dangerous road conditions. Wednesday residential customers will be collected next Wednesday Dec. 31. The city’s collections contractors have been running limited commercial routes around the clock this week, providing service urgent commercial accounts where containers are accessible. Service priorities include hospitals, health facilities, grocers and other accounts with severe capacity constraints. Residential collections were suspended Thursday Dec. 18, through today, Wednesday Dec. 24, due to snow fall and road conditions. Limited commercial routes have been run Monday through Wednesday this week reaching approximately 30 percent of the businesses accounts in the city. Contractors are continually inspecting all neighborhoods throughout the day for service opportunities. Due to the Christmas holiday on Dec. 25, Thursday and Friday customers will be delayed one...
I just posted CHS-V Ep. 1 onto Current.com (minus all the CHS-V branding). For those of you that don't know current tv, it's a really cool channel/ website that plays short form documentaries, much of it created by viewers. Comcast channel 125 here in Seattle. The way it works is people submit videos (they call them pods) to the website, and then Current picks out shows to play on TV based on votes, comments, and of course their own discretion. It seems like Current likes to pick pods that get a good discussion going in the comments. So if you want to see CHS on national tv go here...
http://current.com/items/89644603/chs_the_new_face_of_news.h Vote for, comment on it, and spread the word! Dear Santa, We have been a very good neighborhood this year. We mostly didn't do too many bad things though there was a little bit of graffiti here and there. We cleaned our plates and finished our lattes and helped keep the drains mostly clear. We didn't do a great job keeping the sidewalks free of ice -- but it's not because we didn't want to (please see requested gift #2). For the most part, we spent the year celebrating in the streets and being very, very good to each other. Here is what Capitol Hill would like for Christmas this year. Please also read the comments for more. Love,
From Sea-Tac Airport website (12/24/08): The Airport Parking Garage is currently full. Parking is also full in off-airport lots (map); even parkers with reservations are being turned away. If you have a reservation, call ahead to your lot. (This worked well late late Monday night. Your mileage may vary). Google map of the route.
Thus far, you've survived the worst snow and ice Seattle has seen in the dot com era. Sure, you've slipped and fallen a few times but, you, Capitol Hill, have survived. Time to double down! In the wee hours of Monday morning, this entry was added to the CHS event calendar -- Extreme Snow Bike Race Smackdown Cal Anderson Extravaganza 2008.
We don't know exactly what it all means but we're certain it will be a good show if even one biker shows. If at least two cyclists heed the call, it will be epic and there will be ballads marking the day. 
Cross country (or, as Meg would have it) "Cross Urban" Ski trip from Miller playfield to Volunteer Park and back. Took some movies of the 19th & Aloha snow play area. Much parental supervision. Later in afternoon walked down to Lake Union. Many young adults sliding down the west side of Capitol Hill. No parental supervision. Some of them could have used some! All very cheerful and peaceful, with oodles of people out walking around. If you really, really need more snow photos, try here. 
UPDATE: Sunday 4:45 PM
Read the rules then leave a comment in support of your favorite area nonprofit in the CHS Snowball 2008 group giving experiment. Comments close at 5p. Tally as of 3p -- P-patch Trust (in support of park at Summit/John) is in the lead Jubilee Women's Center || |
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